Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

Sic semper tyrannis! The South is avenged.

What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

I am no courtesan, nor moderator, nor tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.

Politics is the art of the possible.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

No human life, not even the life of a hermit, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.